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English Language Development — Grade 4

Goal 1. Listening — Novice High, Objective NH 1.02

Goal 1. Listening

The learner will comprehend spoken English in a variety of personal, social, and academic contexts.

Level: Novice High

Students will begin to use simple words and phrases, while continuing to use forms of non-verbal communication to express ideas and demonstrate comprehension. They may use pictures, actions, and limited verbal responses to show their understanding. Learning objectives focus on using one-word responses to answer familiar questions, demonstrating comprehension of oral presentations, using simple words and phrases to ask questions, retelling familiar stories using gestures, identifying common word families, recalling facts and details from text, printing legibly, using correct word order and spacing, spelling emergent sight words, composing simple sentences, and following one-step and two-step directions.

Objective NH 1.02

Understand and follow one-step and two-step directions with modeling and prompting when spoken slowly and distinctly.

Resources aligned to this objective

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Creature creation - an elaboration writing activity
This lesson will focus on the writing element of elaboration. It will also tap into higher order thinking skills with the creation of a Coastal Plain imaginary animal and a creative story about the creature. This lesson could be linked to 4th grade Science and Social Studies objectives. For more in-depth knowledge in those other subjects, go to the lesson entitled Researching the Coastal Plain
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
By Ana Sanders and Heather Ennis.